Alfred Adler - Adlerian Personality Test

Adlerian Personality Test

[Adler on Freud's Sexism]

• Adler married a feminist
• Adler said that male psychology and female psychology are the same

[Family constellation]

• The birth order, gender of siblings, and the age between them
• Perceived perception is more important than numerical rank

             - 'Adler's view of some possible traits by Birth order'

[Early Recollection]

• Memories we have are indicative of our style of life
• It doesn't matter if the memory is objectively true, but what matters more is how the person perceives it

             - e.g. I was going with my mother and little brother to market. Suddenly, it began to rain

                      and my mother took me in her arms, and then, remembering that I was the order.

                      She put me down and took up my younger brother.

             - For psychotherapy, Early recollection, family recollection are important

• Career Choice ( Holland's six career types )

             - Realistic

             - Investigative

             - Artistic

             - Social

             - Enterprising

             - Conventional

• Early recollections may change due to therapy

[Dreams]

• Very subjective
• Always ask for the client's associations
• Always propose tentative analyses

[Psychotherapy]

• Address three things

             - Underdeveloped social interest

             - Lack of courage

             - Exaggerated feeling of inferiority

• Goal setting
• Friendly therapeutic relationship

[Critiquing Adler]

• Hard to define

             - Superiority or success

             - Creative power

             - Style of life

• Similar to Psychoanalysis

             - Lack of RCT's

[Personality Themes]

• Determinism  VS  Free choice
• Pessimism  VS  Optimism
• Causation  VS  Teleology
• Conscious  VS  Unconscious
• Biology  VS  Environment
• Uniqueness  VS  Similarity